Master’s Thesis in Sustainable Multi-Material Structural Optimization

Aalto University; Finland; On-site; EUR 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalto University’s Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering invites a Master’s thesis student to explore sustainability-driven optimization of hybrid multi-material structures. You will develop optimization methods balancing environmental goals with structural performance, cost, and life cycle considerations.

The role offers supervision, access to advanced numerical modelling resources, and a competitive research assistant salary while based at Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland.

Qualifications

• Master’s candidate with a solid grounding in structural mechanics and sustainability.
• Experience with multi-material structures and optimization is advantageous.
• Familiarity with LCA, finite element methods, and scripting is expected.

Responsibilities

• Develop a multi-objective optimization method balancing structure, cost, and life-cycle assessment.
• Formulate and implement analytical and numerical models; define objectives and constraints.
• Evaluate candidate designs with Pareto analyses and benchmark results against datasets.

Skills

Structural mechanics

Optimization

LCA

Finite element methods

Python

MATLAB

Education

Master's student in mechanical, civil, aerospace, materials, naval architecture, or related discipline

Tools

Python scripting

MATLAB

Job description

Aalto University’s Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering invites a Master’s thesis student to explore sustainability-driven optimization of hybrid multi-material structures. You will develop optimization methods balancing environmental goals with structural performance, cost, and life cycle considerations.

The role offers supervision, access to advanced numerical modelling resources, and a competitive research assistant salary while based at Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland.